Matt Tuckey is a writer from Oldham, England. He covers celebrities, night life, Manchester, fitness, creative writing, social media, confidence and events. Some of this may, in some way, help others. Or maybe it'll just entertain you for a while.

Friday, 15 April 2011

In Case You Missed It: Salford's Naked Soldier

I'd like to congratulate you, Mike Keegan. You have written The Manchester Evening News' funniest article in a LONG time. For readers who may have missed it, here's the story of Lance Corporal Wayne O'Mahoney, who charged naked out of his house to apprehend a car thief.

What a guy. I can confirm the corporal's bravery as I used to live on that street back in '03/'04. Castle Irwell, Salford University's student digs, were right in the middle of the road. In fact, on an adjoining street, Seaford Road- that which connects the digs to the main uni campus- someone shot a firework at me from a side street. The cretin. A message to that person: you missed. Badly.

There was a lot of hatred between the locals and the students as they viewed us as the privileged ones with our own (largely useless) security guards and green space and sporting facilities and- critically- the money to go to uni in the first place. But we weren't the only ones falling victim to crime, and that still isn't the case now. It's good to see someone standing up to the scum.

The Lance Corporal clearly has a lot of balls- as I'm sure his eye-balling neighbours will confirm.

3 comments:

Wow! I once read a Steven King book called The Drawing Of The Three (part of the long winded Dark Tower series). In this book Mr King spends an inordinate amount of time impressing on the reader how hard (?) it is to fight naked. Since reading this book I have always been drawn to stories of people fighting naked and can't prevent my subconscious being impressed. Bloody Steven King! He really does go on and on about naked fighting.

Greco-Roman wrestling was done naked, I believe. Hundreds of years ago. People aren't as comfortable these days- except of this soldier in particular! And yes, Stephen King does bang on about stuff unnecessarily. The Shining could have been a third of the size it was, and been a much better story. AND he's probably right- lack of clothing= more bare skin= more pain and less protection for the groin area. I have the feeling hemight have given it a shot himself. Can't say I have!

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